Thursday, July 14, 2011

Renewed Rocker

A few weeks ago, the hubs pulled something out of the attic for me. Something that had been in our attic {and my dad's attic before that} for several years. It was my favorite little rocking chair from when I was little. I have all these memories of sitting in this chair at my Nana's house, rocking my baby dolls in it, and probably fighting over it with my little brother. Pretty sure the dusty, gross, scraped up piece of wood that came out of the attic was not what I had tucked away in the "fond childhood memories" folder of my brain! The poor rocking chair looked terrible! I couldn't touch it anywhere without getting a good half inch of dust on my hands. Nas-teee.

After cleaning it up the best I could, we let Allie try it out for awhile, to see if she liked it. I recently pulled it from her room into the living room, so she could sit in it to watch her latest favorite movie, The Sound of Music. To be honest, it grossed me out. It looked so old. Not even old in a cool, vintage sort of way - just icky and old. So I decided...

The rocking chair would be my first spray-painting venture. Ok. Now I wasn't grossed out, I was just super excited. I figured it would take me like 30 minutes, I'd spray on some pretty paint, and it would be a new chair. Not so much. Two coats of primer, 2 coats of paint, and a clear top coat later, this is finally what I ended up with:

I had fun taking my Allie outside and letting her enjoy her bright new tiffany blue chair on the porch...

She was a little more interested in her Dr. Seuss books
than the chair at the moment...

I am pretty stinkin' proud of the way this came out, and I can't wait to find some more fun spray paint projects to tackle! In the meantime, my next project will be making a little seat cushion for this awesome "new" rocking chair.